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Saturday, 31 December 2011

It has, it must be said, been quite a funky year for Alchemy members in 2011.

Debbie ventured into e-publishing and saw the release of her short story collection Maniac and Other Stories, and her novels Hamelin's Child (adult thriller) and Edge of Dreams (YA fantasy). She also saw the publication of her stories On the Edge of Forever in the Kindle Coffee-Break Collection anthology (edited by Saffina Desforges) and Moira on the Everyday Fiction site.

Jan was especially prolific this year - she saw the publication of Grey Magic for Cat Lovers in New Horizons/ BFS Journal (Summer 2011); Mayday Springs Askew in Tales from the Greenmantle (July 2011); The Clinic in the Alt-Dead anthology; Ballad of Lucy Lightfoot in Full Fathom Forty:40th Anniversary of the BFS; Roberta in Ethereal Tales #12; Redhill Residential in True Personal Ghost Stories; Valkenswaard in Unspoken Water #2; Wade's Run in Ghost Stories; Oblation in Andromeda's Offspring #3 and she finished off the year with the publication of Thirteenth Day in the Estronomicon Chrismas edition.

Mike has seen the release of his e-novella Sailors of the Skies (available from Amazon), has had his story Cold Rain published in the Morpheus Tales Urban Horror Special, his story Only the Lonely appeared in Dark Valentine Issue #4/Spring 2011 and his story Sons of the Dragons appeared in Kzine Issue 1. Not only that but his story Saving Prince Romero is about to come out in the next PS Publishing antho - Postscripts #26/27 - Unfit For Eden and he was also interviewed by Stuart Young in Redeye Extra.

Peter edited and published the excellent Peter Atkins collection Rumours of the Marvellous and also had his story Who Wanders in the Mire published in the Christmas edition of Estronomicon. He was interviewed on the Red Moon Chronicle site and edited four fantastic issues of Dark Horizons - the British Fantasy Society's fiction magazine.

Sam saw the publication of the next volume in her Vampire Gene series - Hateful Heart by Murky Depths and her collection Zombies in New York and Other Bloody Jottingswas published by Telos Publishing. She also had her short stories Walking the Dead published in the BFS Journal/Spring 2011 and The Toymaker's House in Full Fathom Forty:40th Anniversary of the BFS.

Wednesday, 28 December 2011

Group member Peter Coleborn's Alchemy Press has co-published, with Airgedlamh Productions, Rumours of the Marvellous by Peter Atkins. The signed, number edition -- 14 of Atkins' best tales -- was launched at FantasyCon 2011 last September. Also on hand to personally dedicate the book was cover artist Les Edwards. The book can be ordered from the Alchemy Press website or via Amazon.

The Alchemy Press has also published a Kindle novella: "Sailors of the Skies" by Alchemy Writers member Mike Chinn. This is a fabulous tribute to the pulp/noir stories from the 30s/40s -- and stars Damian Paladin. This eBook costs just 86p / 99c -- read a review of it on the Amazon website.

Contents:Foreword by Tracey ChildsImmortal Monster by Sam StoneThe Widow and the Deserter by Alex BarrettSleeping Lions by Niall BoyceOrbyting by Jan EdwardsThe Noise from the Flat Upstairs by S.E. BransonTower Song by Richard HowardDeadline by Paul W.T. BallardThe Attic Nursery by Raven DaneChillers and Breathers by Sam StoneWe Attract that which we Fear the Most by Louise JamesonLast Rites by Simon Guerrier